Alert archive / North Dakota

Weather alerts in Kidder County, North Dakota

3,378 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Kidder County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,378
Warnings
898
Watches
604
Advisories
1,095
Busiest year
2011223 alerts
Average year
84over 40 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 75% of tornado reports in Kidder County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 7 minutes before, and 83% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820100%0
201010100%0
201110190%0
201310100%0
201430100%0
201810100%0
202030100%0
202110100%10%
20244175%1100%21 min
2025330%2100%0 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200827967%3100%22 min
20099189%0
2010281643%683%18 min
2011402343%5100%42 min
201214843%475%41 min
2013181044%10100%25 min
201410100%888%22 min
20155340%1100%34 min
2016262023%1090%20 min
201712833%7100%16 min
2018181517%6100%15 min
201912118%9100%12 min
2020181139%8100%21 min
20219633%5100%9 min
202210910%580%8 min
20239544%7100%12 min
20248625%367%28 min
2025302033%2190%25 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200920100%0
201010100%0
20115180%0
201420100%0
2021220%1100%53 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 24, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS63 min
Aug 24, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBIS56 min
Aug 24, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS33 min
Aug 24, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS58 min
Aug 24, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBIS66 min
Aug 12, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS46 min
Aug 11, 11:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS53 min
Aug 11, 11:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS58 min
Aug 11, 10:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS57 min
Jul 24, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatBIS33 min
Jul 24, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS55 min
Jul 24, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBIS60 min

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.